. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . t North Africa ; but its numbers are largely increasedduring winter. It is also a resident in Palestine, Asia Minor, and Persia. It is a summervisitor to Russian Turkestan, and probably also to West Siberia south of lat. 48°, as Finschrecords it from the steppes north of Lake Saisan. These birds doubtless winter in Indiaand in the basin of the Red Sea. (Nitzsch, Pterylography, p. 112) that the first secondary is sometimes the last on the pinion (Phasianus),sometimes the first on t
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . t North Africa ; but its numbers are largely increasedduring winter. It is also a resident in Palestine, Asia Minor, and Persia. It is a summervisitor to Russian Turkestan, and probably also to West Siberia south of lat. 48°, as Finschrecords it from the steppes north of Lake Saisan. These birds doubtless winter in Indiaand in the basin of the Red Sea. (Nitzsch, Pterylography, p. 112) that the first secondary is sometimes the last on the pinion (Phasianus),sometimes the first on the ulna (Tetrao); whilst the tertials are often placed partly on the cubitus andpartly on the humerus (Sundevall, Ibis, 1886, p. 404). It is quite evident that the quills must be classed on their merits, and not with regard to the accident oftheir positions. An additional reason of a very practical kind why the term innermost secondaries is a badone is that in describing a bird it is often necessary to mention the outermost secondaries and the innermostsecondaries, in addition to the tertials. CEDICNEMUS. 77. (Half natural size.) CEDICNEMUS CREPITANS INDICUS, INDIAN STONE-CURLEW. CEdicnemus crepitans alis brevioribus, et primariis magis albo notatis. Diagnosis. The Indian Stone-Curlew and the European Stone- Curlew are connected together by a yarjationsseries of intermediate forms. CEdicnemus indicus, Salvadori, Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. viii. pt. iv. p. 375 (1865). Plates .—Unfigured. Habits.—Legge, Birds of Ceylon, p. 969. Eggs.—Hume, Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, p. 581. Average size much less than those oftbe European form. The resident Stone-Curlews of India and Ceylon may fairly be regarded as sub-specifically distinct from their European allies. In consequence of their migratory habits,the latter birds have acquired longer wings, and are larger birds altogether. EuropeanStone-Curlews vary in length of wing from 10 inches to 9 inches, whilst t
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